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Fernando Báez

Born

in San Félix de Guayana, Venezuela

January 01, 1947

Website

http://www.fernandobaez.galeon.com/

Genre

Poetry, Nonfiction

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Fernando Báez (San Félix, Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan writer, poet and essayist. He is known for his work on the destruction of Iraqi books and art caused by the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Báez has a degree in education and a doctorate in library science, and worked for several years at the University of the Andes in Mérida, Venezuela, where he studied Greek and Latin under José Manuel Briceño Guerrero.

Among his works are Historia Universal de la Destrucción de Libros (2004), Historia de la Antigua Biblioteca de Alejandría (2003), La Destrucción Cultural de Iraq (2004), which was translated into English by Alfred MacAdam and published in 2008 as A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day ...more

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	A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq by Fernando Báez, Alfred J. MacAdam (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 769 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El saqueo cultural de America Latina. De la conquista a la globalizacion by Fernando Báez, Fernando Bez 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Los primeros libros de la humanidad: El mundo antes de la imprenta y el libro electrónico (Historia y cultura) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Las maravillas perdidas del mundo: Breve historia de las grandes catástrofes culturales de la civilización (Historia y cultura) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La destrucción cultural de Iraq: Un testimonio de posguerra (Horizontes-Testimonios) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El traductor de Cambridge (Nueva Biblioteca) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Hoguera de los intelectuales 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A testimony of postwar: Lost Treasures- Burnt Books in Bagdad: Ziggurat Group by Fernando Báez, Maria Gonzalez (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alejado (Textos de la Universidad de los Andes) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Los últimos días de Martin Heidegger: Areté 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is no identity without memory.
if we do not remember what we are, we don't know what we are. Over the centuries, we've seen that when a group or nation attempts to subjugate another group or nation, the first thing they do is erase the traces of its memory in order to reconfigure its identity.”
― Fernando Báez, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq

tags: identity, memory, subjugation

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“The book gives substance to human memory. The book, despite being portable, objectifies memory: it is a rational unity that uses audiovisual, printed, or electronic means to represent mnemonic and linguistic will.”
― Fernando Báez, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq

tags: books, humanity, memory, unity, unity-of-all-people

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